Collar.



R. 0. KENNEDY.

COLLAR.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I2, 1911.

1,270, 1 68. Patented June 18, 1918.

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ATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD OAKLEY KENNEDY, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO CLUETT, PEABODY 82: CO. INC., OF TROY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

COLLAR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 18, 1918.

Application filed April 12, 1917. Serial No. 161,584.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD OAKLEY IYIEN- NEDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, county of Rcnsselaer, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collars, of which the following is a specification.

Reference may be had to the accompany ing drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. similar parts in the several figures therein.

This invention is applicable to detachable collars of various kinds provided with end-buttonholes, and is particularly adapted for the type of fold-collar having a band with a hook-end adapted to be inserted be tween the band and the folded-over top at the other end of the collar.

The principal object of the invention is to reinforce an end-buttonhole in a collar to better resist the thrust of the collar-button whereby the ends of the collar are secured together and to the neckband of the shirt.

Other objects will appear in connection with the following description.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front view in perspective of a fold-collar made in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a front view of a brokenaway end-portion of the collar on an enlarged scale.

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown in preferred form, 1 is the band, and 2 the folded-over top of a foldcollar.

The band has a long end, or hook-end, 3, provided with a buttonhole, 4:, which hookend is adapted to be inserted between the other end, 5, of the band and the folded-over top at the other end of the collar.

The short end, 5, of the band is provided with a buttonhole, 6, said buttonholes, e and 6, being adapted to engage the same frontcollar-button whereby the ends of the collar are detachably secured together and to the neckband of a shrirt.

In the use of collars of this type it is found that the end-buttonholes tend to break or give way at their outer ends, and to thus enlarge the buttonholes both longitudinally and vertically at their outer ends, thereby interfering with the proper set of the front portioll$ of the collar.

Similar characters refer to i The buttonholes, 4t and 6, are shown formed with the usual buttonhole-stitches, 7, along their edges; and the buttonhole, 4, is shown with bar-stitches, 8, extending across its outer end at substantially right angles to the line of the buttonhole.

The stitches, 7 are the usual purl-stitches made by an ordinary buttonhole-sewing-inachine, and the bar-stitches, 8, are comparatively long plain stitches.

In addition to the purl-stitches, 7, and bar-stitches, 8, I form in the long end of the band, in accordance with my invention, additional bar-stitches, 9, substantially parallel with the line of the buttonholes, 4, at its outer end.

These bar-stitches, 9, preferably cross the bar-stitches, 8, at substantially right angles and overhang the outer end-portion of the buttonhole, 4-, thereby cooperating with the bar-stitches, 8, to reinforce the outer endportion of said buttonhole to better resist the thrust of the collar-button either vertically or in a direction toward the end of said buttonhole.

In Fig. 1 I have shown bar-stitches, 10, inserted in the short end, 5, of the band obliquely across the outer end of the buttonhole, 6, whereby said bar-stitches overhang the outer end of said buttonhole, 6, and to that extent accomplish the object of the invention.

By the term bar stitch, I mean a stitch which itself is so located and of such length that it extends across the line of pull exerted by the collarbutton, and in resisting said pull the ends of said stitch are supported by the fabric at points on opposite sides of said line of pull.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A collar provided with a buttonhole in one of its ends, and having the usual buttonhole-stitches along the edges of said buttonhole, and in addition thereto bar-stitches overhanging the outer end-portion of said buttonhole.

2. A collar provided with a button hole in one of its ends, and having the usual buttonhole-stitches along the edges of said buttonhole, and bar-stitches at the outer end of said buttonhole at substantially right angles to the line of the buttonhole, and having in addition thereto bar-stitches substantially parallel Wth the line of the buttonholealong one side of the buttonhole at the outer end thereof.

3. A collar provided With a buttonhole in one of its ends, andhaving the usual buttonhole-stitches along the edges of said buttonhole, and bar-stitches at the outer end of said buttonhole at substantially right angles a :to the line of the :buttonhole, and having in addition thereto bar-stitches crossing at right angles said end bar-stitches at one side of said buttonhole.

4. A fold-collar having a band and a folded-over top, said band having a hookand bar-stitches at the outer end of said buttonhole, and in addition thereto bar-stitches overhanging the outer'end ofsaid buttonhole.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of April, 1917.

RICHARD OAKLEY.- KENNEDY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

